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From: dennis@PEANUTS.NOSC.MIL (Dennis Cottel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: gprlib is now extra-cost option
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Date: 10 Nov 88 22:54:18 GMT
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Casey Leedom says:
> It turns out that Apollo has unbundled their graphics development
> software with SR10.  How wonderful.  (More sarcasm than you can
> *possibly* imagine.)  I now have a graphics workstation with no graphics
> development software.  It was only $180, so we ordered it right away, but
> I'm staggeringly offended by this.  I can't even imagine what brain
> damage was the cause of this farsighted decision.  Long live customer
> support at Apollo!

I hate to get in a snit before verifying this statement, but if true,
it is really upsetting.  It may not be a lot of money (until you
multiply by 40) but the philosophy is all wrong.  At least you knew
that if you wrote a graphics program, another Apollo site would be
able to run it (already not true with 3D GMR).  This is one of the
successes of the Macintosh.  With the graphics unbundled, other sites
will more often choose to use different underlying graphics packages--
leading to incompatibilities between sites, less software
compatibility, and therefore less software.

Besides which, you don't find out you don't have it until you need it.
Then it is months before we can get it through our purchasing system.

	Dennis Cottel  Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152
	(619) 553-1645      dennis@nosc.MIL      sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis